Editing Eric Ravilious (section)

{{short description|English painter}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox artist
| name             = Eric Ravilious
| image            = File:Eric_Ravilious.jpg
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1903|6|22|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Acton, London|Acton]], London, England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1942|9|2|1903|6|22|df=y}}
| death_place      = Iceland
| spouse           = [[Tirzah Garwood]]
| field            = Watercolour painting, design, woodcuts
| training         = {{unbulleted list |Eastbourne Grammar School|Eastbourne School of Art|[[Royal College of Art]]}}
| birth_name       = Eric William Ravilious
}}
[[File:Two Women in a Garden (Ravilious).jpg|thumb|Two Women in a Garden (Ravilious). [[Tirzah Garwood]] on right]] [[File:Tea at Furlongs 1939.jpg|thumb|''Tea at Furlongs'', watercolour 1939]]

'''Eric William Ravilious''' (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in [[Sussex]], and is particularly known for his watercolours of the [[South Downs]], [[Castle Hedingham]] and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a [[war artist]], and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last1=Armitstead |first1=Claire |title='He died in his 30s living the life he had dreamed of': artist Eric Ravilious |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/24/he-died-in-his-30s-living-the-life-he-had-dreamed-of-artist-eric-ravilious |access-date=24 June 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=24 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Spalding">{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}</ref><ref name="Carrington Graphis Obit">{{cite journal|last1=Carrington|first1=Noel|author-link1=Noel Carrington|title=Eric Ravilious|journal=Graphis|date=1946|pages=430–9|url=http://magazines.iaddb.org/issue/GR/1946-10-01/edition/16/page/38|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032457/http://magazines.iaddb.org/issue/GR/1946-10-01/edition/16/page/38|url-status=dead}}</ref>